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Proficiency vs Excellence - What's the difference?

proficiency | excellence |

As nouns the difference between proficiency and excellence

is that proficiency is ability, skill, competence while excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

As a proper noun Excellence is

a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

proficiency

English

Noun

(proficiencies)
  • Ability, skill, competence.
    • a test of proficiency in English
    to attain (or to reach) proficiency
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    Synonyms

    * ability * command * competence * skill * See also

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    excellence

    English

    (wikipedia excellence)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

    • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----